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When Timothy Williams opened Cowboy Feed Store in September 2024, he did it out of necessity for his community.
The store had previously been open under different ownership, but flooding earlier that year had left the store under four feet of water and caused the location to shut down, Williams said.
“The community needed a feed store,” Williams said. “There's a lot of families here with animals, livestock, and it was just needed.”
The details
Williams said Cowboy Feed Store offers an assortment of livestock-related feed and goods. He said the feed available at the store covers the full range of typical livestock around the area, noting they even have food available for emus and tortoises.
“Any and everything,” Williams said.
Since Williams took over the store, he said business has seen a big uptick.
“The store used to have about 20-30 customers a day,” he said. “Now, we're at about 120-130 customers a day.”
Williams said his idea for the name of the store came from his late father, who passed away a month after the store reopened.
“My dad was like the only person you knew that wore a cowboy hat and cowboy boots every day, and he raised us real country,” Williams said. “He was from Mississippi, so that's where the name came from.”
Also of note
In addition to livestock-related goods and feed, Williams said the store offers an assortment of items created from community businesses.
“There’s someone who does hats, someone does shirts, someone does the aprons, the mugs, rump scrubbers,” Williams said. “We don't charge or rent spaces here. It comes back to you.”
Moving forward, Williams said he has plans to expand the current location to include a larger space designated to store animal feed. He said he hopes the expansion will make transporting the feed easier on his staff.
More than anything, Williams said he finds joy in being able to bring members of his community together, regardless of whether they’re customers.
“We call this a community-built store,” Williams said. We give to the community, and they give back everything you can imagine.”
